Bruce Campbell was an English ornithologist, writer, and broadcaster. He has long worked for the British Trust for Ornithology

British Trust for Ornithology

The British Trust for Ornithology is an organisation founded in 1932 for the study of birds in the British Isles.-Activities:The BTO carries out research into the lives of birds, chiefly by conducting population and breeding surveys and by bird ringing, largely carried out by a large number of...

 (BTO).

Campbell was born in Southsea

Southsea

Southsea is a seaside resort located in Portsmouth at the southern end of Portsea Island in the county of Hampshire in England. Southsea is within a mile of Portsmouth's city centre....

, Hampshire

Hampshire

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...

 on 15 June 1912. As a young boy he was influenced by his father, an army officer, birds-nester and egg-collector who later became the army's Inspector of Physical Training. After his education at Winchester College

Winchester College

Winchester College is an independent school for boys in the British public school tradition, situated in Winchester, Hampshire, the former capital of England. It has existed in its present location for over 600 years and claims the longest unbroken history of any school in England...

 he studied at the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...

 where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in forestry. In 1938 he married Margaret Gibson-Hill, a writer by herself, with whom he had two sons and one daughter. From 1936 to 1948 he was teacher and university lecturer. In 1948 Campbell became secretary at the British Trust for Ornithology. He worked 10 years for this organization, serving on the panel of the Wildlife Collection in collaboration with Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis...

. From April 1959 to 1962 he spent as senior producer at the BBC Natural History Unit

BBC Natural History Unit

The BBC Natural History Unit is a department of the BBC dedicated to making television and radio programmes with a natural history or wildlife theme, especially nature documentaries...

 at Bristol

Bristol

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. Bruce Campbell died on 9 January 1993 in Witney

Witney

Witney is a town on the River Windrush, west of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England.The place-name 'Witney' is first attested in a Saxon charter of 969 as 'Wyttannige'; it appears as 'Witenie' in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name means 'Witta's island'....

, Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

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.

Works (selected)

• 1967: The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Birds (w/ Jan Hanzák)
• 1969: British & European birds in colour (w/ Bertel Bruun, Arthur Singer)
• 1970: The Hamlyn guide to birds of Britain and Europe (w/ Bertel Bruun, Arthur Singer)
• 1974: The Dictionary of Birds in Colour‎
• 1979: The natural history of Britain and Northern Europe
• 1985: A Dictionary of Birds